Jordan French (born November 1985) is an American entrepreneur, writer and engineer best known for founding Grit Daily News and for cofounding 3D food printing startup, BeeHex, Inc.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]} French is a regular contributor to technology media outlets including CIO magazine, Entrepreneur, ^[9] Today.com, ^[10] TechCrunch, ^[11] The Huffington Post, ^[12] Thrive, ^[13] and Business.com.^[14]

Jordan French was raised in upstate New York, which he described in an interview as “among apple orchards” in a blue-collar and rural environment.^[15] Following a death in his immediate family he worked as an entrepreneur, starting in real estate.^[15] While earning a degree in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University, French worked on NASA 's Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^{[16] [17]} An intellectual property attorney, he earned a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.^{[18] [19] [20]}

French is a cofounder in 3D food printing firm, BeeHex, along with engineers Anjan Contractor, Chintan Kanuga, and attorney Ben Feltner.^{[21] [22]} Originating from a NASA project that looked into ways to feed astronauts and passengers on deep-space missions including to Mars, French is an engineer and the chief marketing officer on its team.^[23] The company raised $1 million in seed-round funding from Donatos’ founder Jim Grote in 2017.^{[24] [25]} In 2016 French was named a “growth hacker” by CIO magazine and introduced 3D food printing to the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal.^[26][27] In 2017 French represented BeeHex on a panel with Nestlé and Juicero at Target stores’ Smarter Kitchen Summit in San Francisco and moderated Millennial 20/20 Summit in New York.^[28][29]

French is also a cofounder in BNB Shield.^{[30][31] [32]} and Notability Partners, a digital-marketing firm.^[33] In 2016, French was on the founding team of FOWNDERS, the social-impact entrepreneur accelerator founded by Gerard Adams based in Newark, New Jersey.^[34]